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Notable supporters of Social Credit or "monetary reform" in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included aircraft manufacturer A. V. Roe, scientist Frederick Soddy, author Henry Williamson, [citation needed] military historian J. F. C. Fuller [7] and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
The Kindred was founded in 1920. Some members continued into Hargrave's Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, which was established in 1931–32, and which became in 1935 the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This was wound up in 1951.
He left Canada in 1936, returning to find the Social Credit Party in disarray after the Public Order Act 1936 banned the wearing of uniforms by non-military personnel. [3] Undeterred, Hargrave steered the Social Credit Party into a more evangelical mood, adopting quasi-religious slogans ('God's Providence is Mine Inheritance') and organising ...
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties. In Canada: Social Credit Party of Canada; Manitoba Social Credit Party; Parti crédit ...
Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Social Credit-NZ; Solomon Islands Social Credit Party This page was last edited on 7 September 2014, at ...
In 1938, Aberhart's Alberta Social Credit Party had 41,000 paid members, forming a broad coalition ranging from those who believed in Douglas' monetary policies to moderate socialists. [ 42 ] : 127 The latter group helped influence the party to form alliances with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and various communist groups in various ...
Some of the British monetary reformers, such as Michael Rowbotham, is influenced by the Social Credit-movement. The Money Reform Party [5] [6] was founded by Anne Belsey from Kent in 2005 and deregistered in 2014. [7] Belsey stood for the MRP in the 2006 Bromley and Chislehurst by-election and came last with 33 votes.
According to the UK Parliament website sourced from a report by Olympic Britain, [3] during the 1950s there were 2.8 million members of the Conservative Party and 1 million Labour Party members. In the years after 1945 until the early 1990s, supporters of the Socialist and Cooperative parties and trade unions linked with the Labour Party ...